Carinna Parraman will be in conversation with artist Paul Coldwell on the role of printmaking within the work of Paula Rego and in particular her approach to etching. Coldwell worked with Rego on all etchings between 1986-2005 which included The Nursery Rhymes, Peter Pan, The Children’s Crusade and Untitled (Abortion Series) and through this has a unique insight into how these prints came into being. The talk will explore broad themes around Rego’s prints including, her use of colour and their relationship to graphic traditions. Rego’s etchings are essentially pictures fully realised through the medium of print, leading the critic Robert Hughes to write;
Rego’s etchings, and in particular the ‘nursery rhymes’, have every claim to be ranked among the outstanding feats of graphic imagination of our time. (Hughes 2007)
Paul Coldwell is an artist and Professor of Fine Art Printmaking at University of the Arts London.
Dr Carinna Parraman is Professor of Design and Innovation: Colour and Print, and Director of the Centre for Print Research (CFPR), UWE Bristol.
The Art of the Maker series is a collaboration between Arnolfini and The School of Art & Design and Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE Bristol.

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